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Hi Renormalised, there is some truth in what you state below. I used to be a pretty fair VFR pilot but I never could get my mind around IFR.
-Your problem, and it's the same problem many people have, is you don't have the capacity to be able to handle the type of thought needed to comprehend the ideas that are being expressed in these situations. Much of the problem is a lack of the right education, but it's also the innate ability to be able to handle the ideas. It's just a case of one person being good at something and the others aren't....someone being good at art whilst the next person is flat out drawing stick figures, for example. You have problems with the science and find the explanations either confusing and/or go against what you believe things should be. Belief and reality are not mutually exclusive, but neither are they completely in accordance with one another for most of the time.[/QUOTE]
However I will stand by my belief, however poorly stated, that the balloon is just a metaphor and that to push it too far is a mistake.
What this old country boy needs as does anyone who truly wants to understand this is a serious math education and as you point out the proper mind set.
Not to cast aspersions but I often wonder how many people really understand quantum physics, black holes, or the power in a quasar.
Math at that level, or perhaps I should say science at that level is like a great symphony, darn hard to compose and maybe even harder to truly understand and appreciate.
But be that as it may... I will keep listening and I will keep asking questions.
Brian
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